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>> was the president lang a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier, just a few moments ago at arlington national cemetery. are kevin lip tack is still with me right now. and as we were mentioning just a few moments ago before this guy i started a few minutes early, we should note we were talking about how this is very personal day for president biden, as well as son beau died at the age of 46 years old from cancer after serving in iraq with the delaware army national guard the president talks about this from time to time how this personal sacrifices obviously left a tremendous mark on his life. kevin, your thoughts? >> yeah, very much so in the ninth anniversary of that death, just coming up later
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this week, and i think for president biden then when he's standing there in front of the tomb of the unknown soldier, certainly thinking about the decisions that he has made, an office the very responsibility that he holds two men and women in uniform in this country, protecting freedoms at home and abroad. and certainly that's a responsibility that ways very heavily on president biden. and you know, jim, i was in driving into work today. i drove past the world war ii memorial and you'll remember, we're coming up now on the 80th anniversary of d-day in about a week and a half time, president biden will be there in northern france next week, remembering the thousands of american and allied troops has two died as part of the normandy landings, all in the eye of protecting democracy in europe. and i think that has been such a consuming focus for president biden is particularly in this election year talking about the importance of defending and protecting democracy i thought it was interesting what he said
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at west point over the weekend, telling those cadets that democracy isn't guaranteed that every generation has an obligation to defend it and to choose and certainly that's very resonant message on memorial day particularly at such a fraught international moment, the president dealing with those grinding wars in ukraine and gaza, he has made a commitment not to deploy american troops to those conflicts, but certainly the risks of americans abroad very real for this president than jim absolutely having that's an excellent point about d-day 80th anniversary of de d-day coming up on june 6th. >> those remember, it says will be taking place in normandy in france of the president will be there. and there are two sites probably on this earth that symbolize america sacrifice for freedom and democracy around the world that would be arlington national cemetery. in normandy. kevin love tack. thank you very much for all of that. really appreciate it. in the meantime, more than 120
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million americans are in the path of severe weather on this memorial day after powerful storms, including tornadoes, swept through the central us over the weekend, at least 19 people were killed across four states, oklahoma was one of the hardest hit with homes reduced to rubble. there's still a state of emergency in arkansas due to extensive damage from this storms. eight people there were killed this tornado, you're looking at right there, a tour through kentucky on sunday, leaving behind a trail of devastation today, everything but at least my dogs don't came my husband. okay and seven people were killed in northern texas, including two young children. >> a tornado destroyed homes and snap trees and power lines. cnn's ed lavandera as and cooking county texas, just north of dallas. add what can you show us well, the gentleman
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you see standing behind me, i was just speaking with him, jim, and this is just a devastating thing. >> what you see here is left to the foundation of their home. that's where he was on saturday night everything blown apart, all of the debris landed on top of him. he's somehow able to be here today because in this other area that you see right here, this is where three of those seven victims, including two of the four children that were killed in the storm. that's where their bodies were found. their home was blown from all the way where you see those two trees more than 100 yards away and that is just you see, we talked about the big picture of what is unfolded here and what has happened. but it's the individual stories people who survived and those who were less fortunate and did not survive really kinda puts everything into perspective. and this is an area where as i mentioned, seven people killed 100 others injured. the storm ripped through here just before
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11:00 saturday night. so you can imagine in the darkness, everyone here trying to figure out what path exactly the tornado was taking. several miles over this way is interstate 35 and that's where people were also scrambling trying to find some sort of shelter. more than 100 people well, ducked into a convenience store only to find themselves in the path of the storm. and we also spoke with one resident a young man by the name of frank garcia was home with his family. thankfully, his father had built their own storm shelter out of cinderblock and enlarge storage building behind their house and that's what saved their lives right in there there's nothing but really just the whole so you can actually get some area in, but i mean, you could definitely that's where you can feel the pressure. you can really feel it in here. >> so this is where you wrote out the storm. >> yep. >> yeah. here are my family row dogs. are we hear that there's when going really alright. well, it's probably coming, it's probably coming. >> and then again, you just kinda feel where it just goes
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quiet for maybe a minute, just nothing. >> and then out of nowhere, you just hear the wind start wailing hard and that. point we knew we knew that we were going to have some damage and jimmy know the various storm systems that ripped through here saturday night. >> we'd spoke with official from the red cross who talked about how a lot of the destruction path is seen over up stretch of 150, 250 miles in north texas. obviously see this is one of the most severely hit spots, but just the breadth and the magnitude of what the storm systems are leaving in its trail is really just breathtaking to see here this afternoon and this morning absolutely. >> no question. all 11 de or thank you for all of your work out there. really appreciate it still the common just minutes from now, president biden will speak at a memorial de ceremony at arlington national cemetery as the nation remembers, those we've made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, stable in one of the most
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2016 campaign. joining me now, cnn senior political commentator, former trump campaign adviser, david urban, lawyer and jury consultant under moreno and defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, can woo guys great to see all of you. thanks for coming in. shan, let me start with you first. i mean, what do we think is going to to happen tomorrow? we'll see obviously the defense go and then the prosecution. there has been some talk that these closing arguments could take all day that that sounds like a long time. does it really need to take that long? >> it could certainly the prosecution goes second, but they really have to summarize all of the evidence. so there's could take a while. i'm very interested to see what the defense is going to do. i mean, to me, they've done a poor job because it's too much of a scatter gun strategy is kinda like a throw everything at the kitchen wall. see what sticks with trump's favorite foods being with their throwing insult and shame. that hasn't presented a really coherent way of attacking the prosecution. they could do a better job by weaving together some strands of what they
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didn't cross really focusing on this one issue, which is insufficient evidence, perhaps that trump really directed the way the reimbursements recovered up in the accounting that can help them manage and stormy daniels saying she doesn't really know anything about it. and they could give him a smaller target on michael cohen and stuff, just claiming he lives he lives for the prosecution. if the defense completely focuses on michael cohen lying. yeah, that's a gift horse because i don't know if you can do this new york, but we could walk behind the defendant. walk behind this day. if you don't like what michael cohen does, if you find them distasteful, will at the sky. that's who hired him. yeah. >> that was his boss and linda, let me ask you this. >> i mean, the jurors have been out of the courtroom four gosh for some time now, what do you think that does to a jury at this point well, i think also the reason why they were out was this very special holiday that we're commemorating today? >> and as i've said before, that that the reason we
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commemorate this day is to protect the principles that are protecting mr. trump and getting we're getting his fair trial frankly one never knows about juror misconduct if they've been looking at outside news until either after the trial or during deliberation when perhaps one of the jurors might mention will i've seen or google tells me or i've read in the newspaper something, and then other jurors there's typically will send a note out and tell the judge that there's a problem so that can happen when never really knows except what you know about these tours is that they've been very committed. you haven't lost one juror since the 15th of april and i suspect they're trying very hard to do there job diligently yeah. >> and david, i did want to ask you i mean, what what do you think has been the fallout from all of this for donald trump? have you had any contact with
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his team? do they feel like this is damaged him in any way? do they think it's helped him in some way we were talking with some folks in the previous hours and maybe this this helped donald trump because it other things haven't been the focus yeah, jim's so interestingly poll after poll, right, which has come out during this child has shown has zero impact on this, right. >> it's zero impact on the on trump's favorability rating, et cetera and we'll see what will suit the outcome of the case is ultimately if it's a hung jury or there's an acquittal full outright acquittal, which i think is likely in this case because i think that the prosecution has failed to meet their burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that trump did these events is not this isn't a hush money cases is an accounting case. and i think they felt the care of their burden here by even presenting microkernel could have been the star witness, but allen weisselberg is going to loom large in these closing arguments, i think from the defense's perspective, saying no, if there's one person you
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want to hear from a man who calculated these payments, whose handwritten his handwriting is on these notes. why didn't the prosecution column because presumably he would rebutted michael cohen's testimony. so i think at the end of the day, jim, this is going to have very little impact on the election overall, and perhaps even a positive impact if his acquittal or hung jury. >> so when you see these polls that say if if he's convicted that this could be a negative for him and that voters may shift from trump to biden you're not buying into that gym. i'm not quite sure the methodology behind those poles if they're asking about the january 6 case, the documents case, this case, right. that's pretty generic question. and so i think perhaps maybe on some of the more serious cases, but i would i would hazard a guess that a lot of people think this case and the georgia case were politically driven, politically motivated. and that'll weigh heavily in there in their minds, and discounting the seriousness of this a
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conviction that's case in fact happens. >> all right. well, we'll see what the jury decides. they're the ones doing the work on all of this. david linda linda moreno, and shan, i have to avail early on the seventh of the president's present since me speaking shortly from arlington national cemetery, hope you'll forgive me. a guys. thank you so much. we'll be right back you're going to hear from the president at arlington national cemetery in just a few moments, stay with us the nba playoffs. >> i always get emotional. >> you more concerned about what's going on? sayyed the nba. and what's going on inside a, you, you know, doc, you're right. that's all the time we have. >> thanks for watching. or you couldn't do a commercial arthritis, pain. >> we say not today tanno, eight-hour arthritis pain has two layers of relief. the first is mast the second is long-lasting we give you your day bag, so you can give it everything. tylenol. number one, doctor recommended for arthritis pain the day you get your clear choice, dental
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this this morning, there are more questions about a deadly incident along egypt's border with gaza. egypt says one of its personnel in charge of security was killed earlier today in a shooting, but didn't offer any more information that follows. swift and strong or reaction to a deadly israeli airstrike and rafah that hit a camp for displaced palestinians retired army brigadier general mark khim it joins us now for assistant secretary of state for political military affairs, joel kim. always good to talk to you really appreciate it. your reaction to this airstrike on this was sort of a camp of displaced palestinians israel is, it says they're investigating what, what's your sense of what took place there well, i think the right thing to do is investigate this because there are reports that
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they were going after terrorists leaders, the terrorist hamas leaders from the west bank but it would seem to me that that's pretty close to a populated area in terms of collateral damage. >> and what we just seen happen. so i think on wait to see the outcome and this investigation, but it does seem like this was pretty close to a civilian area and there's some very, very clear rules in international law against that type of operation. >> well, and this goes right to some of the concerns that we've heard about some of these airstrikes in civilian areas general kevin, if you can stand by, we're going to go to the president at arlington national cemetery right now. he is speaking. let's go to the president now 160 years ago this month in the midst of the civil war, the first american soldier was laid to rest at these hallowed ground private william chrisman, a farm worker
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in pennsylvania, had unlisted just seven weeks before there was no formal ceremony to consecrate this new sanctuary. no fan for fanfare you came at a turning point in the war as fighting shifted east, the casualties quickly mounted in the bloody grinding campaign over the next year. >> william will be joined and death as he wasn't live by his brother in arms this final resting place these hills around us, would be transformed from a former slave plantation in new national strike shine for those american heroes who died for freedom who died for us my fellow americans. jill vice president harris, and second gentleman, emhoff secretary austin general browne. most importantly, the veterans and service members
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families, and survivors we gather at this sacred place, at this solemn moment to remember to honor honor the sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands of women and men of giving their lives to this nation each one literally chain in the link of lincoln, a chain of honor stretching back to our founding days each one bound by common commitment not to a place, not to a person, not to a president but to an idea unlike any idea in human history, the idea of the united states of america. today we bear witness to the price they paid every white stone across these cells and every military cemetery and churchyard across america a father a mother of a son, a daughter brothers, sisters,
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spouse, a neighbor, and american everyone was lost loved, someone in the service of our country to everyone who loved ones still missing are accounted for i know how hard it can be. can reopen that black hole in the middle of your chest bring you back to the exact moment you got that phone call. heard that knock and the door are held the hand and the last breath was taken i know it hurts. the herd is still real, still wrong this week marks nine years since i lost my son, beau our losses are not the same. he didn't parish in the battlefield he was a cancer victim from a consequence of being in the army in iraq for year next to a burn pit major us national army national guard living and working in like too many. besides that toxic burn pit and
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as it is for so many of you the pain of his losses with me every day as it is with you still sharp still clear but so is the pride i feel in the service as if i can still hear him saying it's my duty. dad, it's my duty duty. that was the code of my son lived by the creed. all of you live by a crate. the generation of service members of followed in the battle on the grounds around us by fallen heroes from every major conflict in history to defend our independence, to preserve our union, to defeat fascism bill, powerful alliances forged, and fires of two world wars members of the greatest generation. way two years ago next week, took to the beaches of normandy and liberated a continent and literally save the world others who stood against communism in korea and vietnam and not far from here in section 60, larva,
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thousand, thousand, 7,054 women and men made the ultimate sacrifice and afghanistan and iraq who signed up to defeat terrorist protect our homeland after nine 11 decade after decade tour after tour of these wars fought for our freedom the freedom of others because freedom has never been guaranteed every generation has to earn it fight for it defendant in battle between autocracy and democracy between the great of a few, the rights of many it matters. >> our democracy is more than just a system of government. >> is very soul of america it's how we've been able to constantly adapt through the centuries it's why we've always emerged from every challenge stronger than we went in. and how we come together as one nation united just as our fallen heroes have kept the
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ultimate faith with our country and our democracy, we must keep faith with them i've long said, we have many obligations and nation we only have one truly sacred obligation to prepare those, we send it a battle. >> the perfect it's kid care of them and their families when they come home and when they don't. >> since i took office i've signed over 30 bipartisan laws supporting serviceman veterans and their families and caregivers and survivors last year the va delivered more benefits in process, more claims than ever in our history the pact act, which is proud of sin, has already guaranteed 1 million claims helping veterans exposed to toxic materials during their service. 1 million for too long after friday for our nation, these veterans had to fight to get the right house care, to get the benefits data earn. not anymore our nation
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came together to ensure the burden is no longer on them to prove their illness or service related, where there's agent orange are toxic waste to ensure that protected them. they just have to protect the united states because it's assumed that their death was a consequences of the exposure on this day. we came together again to reflect, to remember but above all, to recommit to the future. they fought for a future grounded and freedom. democracy opportunity, inequality not just for some, but for all americans, the only country in the world founded an idea, an idea that all people are created equal deserves to be treated equally throughout their lives we've never fully lived up to that, but we've never, ever, ever walked away from it every generation are fallen heroes have brought us closer today. we're not just
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fortunate heirs of their legacy we have a responsibility to be the keepers of their mission that, that truest memorial of their lives. >> the actions we take every day to ensure that our democracy endures the very idea of american doors. >> ladies and gentlemen 160 years ago, the first american soldier was laid to rest on these hallowed ground there are no big ceremonies no big speeches, no family more family members. >> the more their loss just acquire grief the rolling green hills surrounding them today we join that grieve with gratitude. gratitude to our fallen heroes gratitude to the families left behind in gratitude to the brave souls who continue to uphold the flame of liberty all across our country and around the world
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because of them all of them that we stand here today. we will never forget that we will never ever, ever stop working for two marika more perfect union, which they lived and voice stayed died four that was their promise. that's our promise are promised today to them. that's our promise. always god bless the fallen my god bless their families, and may god protect our troops thank you and that was present and biden at arlington national cemetery wrapping up his remarks on this memorial day, honoring the fallen in this country men and women of the us armed services who have made the ultimate sacrifice. >> president observing in his remarks just a few moments ago about how america's service
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henry family the rothrock family, even my dad, dr. eric jurafsky all these warriors that we have lost far too soon and their families today is just a data honore those families and wounded warrior project it just wants to provide a moment where we honored, empower those families and we honor those that passed and we live a life that reflects that honored and so often and we're looking at the world war ii memorial there on the national mall. as we're speaking to you right now, jacob. and so often on memorial day, there's there's there's a lot of focus on the heroes from world war ii. the greatest generation but obviously there's so many americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in places like iraq, afghanistan vietnam. so many others you know, and i know that you, in particular, you were a crew chief on a black hawk helicopter during your second deployment to iraq in 2007,
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enduring one aerosol mission, your aircraft was hit 36 times and you, were injured and had to deal with ptsd it's just something we don't emphasize enough in this country, jacob, how much we really need to take our hats off to you. and so many other veterans. and obviously the men and women of the armed services who who did make that ultimate sacrifice yes, sir just thinking about that mission, thinking about that time in iraq, thinking about my brothers and sisters, there on either side of me thinking about those that didn't come home it's it gives you a mission so often our veterans are warriors come home and you feel like you've forgotten, you feel like, what do i do now, the mission is over. i'm not i'm not important anymore, but the realization of the fight is right here. the fight is here, and our in our country, it's an are it's in our communities, it's for our brothers and sisters that made it home and
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it's to take care of the families of those that did not. and i'm so honored to be a part of wounded warrior project and be a part of so many different projects to help our warriors get jobs that are fulfilling for them or a honore them through helping with their post-traumatic stress disorder are helping their families. and made one for woodward project. i wouldn't be here right now. it wouldn't be sitting here on the phone with you. i wouldn't have my family behind me absolutely. jacob and one of the things that i was thinking about because i covered this for for some time, i covered a racked and then covered the impact on folks like yourself over the years, all those multiple deployments, what they did, what that did to family members not. just the service members, but their family members when they came home, often dealing with these issues of ptsd tells a little bit about what the wounded warrior project does and how it's helping veterans with their life after a service. because in many cases, as you know, jacob, there's a battle at
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home as well when they come home yeah. >> you know, when when i came home from iraq, when i left the military, i was on edge, but i was on an exit was so sharp that i was cutting those around me, those that i loved, those that loved me and it wasn't until sometime later that i realized that i had left the fight in iraq, but now i had become the fight at home that my wife was fighting, that my children were fighting, that my friends and those around me, we're fighting woodward project has so many amazing different projects and different programs that we use. but what we'd really do is just connect. >> but when a warrior has an opportunity to sit down and look to their left and look to the right. >> and just realize, hey, i'm not alone. >> somebody sees me. >> there's a purpose that i can get involved in there, something greater than me, that my focus can be on. >> it's like reigniting that fire. it's read 19 that flame that just giving them that opportunity to step back into
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into being a warrior, into having a mission, getting back at it yeah. >> and jacob, i mean, you tell me, you know, this better than all of us. one of the worst things you can do is try to push this down. when you're dealing with ptsd, dealing with these types of issues and it seems to me it's having that come rodari with groups like wounded warriors, were combined together as a team, you can help one another pull out of this absolutely. >> one of the greatest gifts that i've received since coming home three wounded work project through my local church in my community and my family. but when the word project really builds is this idea of connection and this idea that hey, when i'm having my down day, there's somebody that's given me a call and check in on me and when i'm up and i'm ready and i'm going and i'm in the fight. i'm checking on my buddy and i'm checking on my brother. i'm checking on my sister. and so this that connection that network of that tribe to be able to take care of egypt right now, you look
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at, we have over 200 and almost 260,000 warriors and wounded warrior project. that's, that's incredible. that's a trial that's a family are out there absolutely. it's it's like a whole other family. and jacob, if somebody is out there watching right now, if they're dealing with these kinds of issues, if they don't know whether or not they can reach out, what what should they do? >> for so many warriors that come home and feel like they're on an island in the ocean by themselves. >> you're not first, just know you're not alone in second. >> take that moment to reach out. have that courage. get back in the flight. >> it's all about staying in the fight and improving your fighting position. >> make that call a wounded warrior project that or call the phone number all the resource center get involved. and if you say, hey, you know what i'm good. well, then maybe you can jump into fight with us they were either, you know, at any given time or they're fighting our battle or we're fighting somebody's
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beside us, but that's what we do all right. >> well, thank you for what you do, jacob really appreciate it. >> and thank you for your service to this country and not just the service when you're in the military, but what you're doing right now, it's so very important jacob. >> thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate all right. >> we'll be right back tomorrow the evidence is the testimony has ended, but it's not over yet before the jury gets the final say. >> prosecutors and trump's defense team get the final word. i've coverage of closing arguments in the trump hush money trial tomorrow at nine eastern. >> good morning. with vocal again gun line trying to alkyl x20 fruit bites for fast and gentle constipation relief in as little as 30 minutes, making your good morning even better with all galactose. it's time to feed the dogs real food, not
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she was paired with buddy, a service dog trained by the organization pause of war since then, buddy has helped angelic regained her independence and navigate post-service life. in case you missed it earlier. here is a bit of my conversation last hour with angelic and buddy. take a look joining me now is angelic williams and buddy angela leak is right there on the left. buddy, of course, on the right buddy might be a little camera shy right now, but that's okay angela, thank you for your for service. we appreciate that. tell us about this great organization and how you and buddy were paired up. >> pause the war is a non-profit organization that rescues shelter dogs and dogs from overseas and places them with veterans first responders as companion animals and sometimes they end up being our service animals amazing and look a little buddy right there. >> he's lifting his head just a touch. i won't try to talk to buddy. i don't think he has there's an ifp your piece, but i'll keep talking to you.
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>> yeah. yeah how was buddy how was he in terms of helping you with ptsd and these challenges that service members come home with. >> you tell us about it. >> so buddy helps me pretty much every day, like get out and just engage again. oh, my i prior to getting buddy, i isolated a lot of struggling with ptsd and i just i stayed home all the time. i wasn't doing any of the activities i used to do like surfing, running, stuff like that. and i'm having buddy because he's such a high-energy dog he he helps me do all the activities that i once loved yeah. >> we were just looking at some video a few moments ago of when you were both introduced to one another for the first time, it looks like it was at a hockey game or something. zach, can you tell us about this? >> yes. so pause the war presented. buddy to me at a
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hockey game on veterans day. actually, i didn't know it was going to get buddy. i'd met him amongst prior, but i had no idea that i was actually go into get him that day. so when he walked out, i was just overwhelmed because i literally watched my lifeline walked to me. he's been such a tremendous help and just just a bundle of joy yeah. >> and talk about the other part of the organization that these many of these animals are brought home from overseas. sometimes they are serving alongside our troops and then come back home. how does that work? >> yeah. so sometimes a lot of wall lot of the time when you're out, when we're on deployment there are some animals that we may bond with overseas and we don't want to leave them behind. it's, it's really difficult to even think about leaving them behind. so they reach out to pause the war and pause the war moves forward
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was everything and brings them here. and i get the privilege at from time to time when they use me for transporting into reunite these service members with the animals that we rescue amazing. >> and what's it been like? what's life bint with buddy? >> incredible, incredible. it's been a little, a little bit of a crazy ride, but i love it. i love it yeah. >> and there are a lot of misconceptions about ptsd and veterans mental health. what do you want people to know about this chapter in your life and what, what veterans go through with ptsd, because sometimes they can become very overwhelming. >> yeah, this chapter of my life is is a second chance for me and it but he has brought so much joy to me and my family and it was really hard. i didn't actually know that i was struggling with ptsd and once things start to get a
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little dark and i reached out to the va and they really helped me out and helped me understand what i was struggling with us and ever since i've i've had the va. my family, the community by my side pause the war. there are an extension now my family and it's just been it's just been a great help it's an amazing organization and what he looks like, he's just a great dog i mean, i love how he's just he's sort of oh, no big deal. >> i'm on tv. right? he's just gonna i'm just gonna rush right now and if folks at home could have seen them before, uk vod during the commercial break, it was a little hard to get buddy to settle down, but now he's doing great he's doing great. >> he's doing great well, angela, tell us how people can get in touch with pause of war. you can go to their website, pause the war.org you. can reach out to them and calls them also go on their website. and posible.org, you can go on their facebook. i'll pause the
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